St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-16
Representative Stewart Charges Council
man Wells With Having an Under
standing With Church,
Under Which the Bill for a Soldiers Home
at Hot Springs Was Vetoed by
the Governor.
Prospects for Great Building Activity
in the Hills During the Pres
ent Summer.
ing a Stumbling Block for De-
veIoping Enterprises.
Special Correspondence of the Globe.


brought from Bismarck to this (Fourteenth)
legislative district. Representative Stew
art, who is editor of the Hot Springs Star,
is trying to account for the veto OF the bill
appropriating money to build Soldiers
home at Hot Springs. He attributes it to
the ''treachery' of his colleague in the
house, Councilman Wells. of Rapid City;
he charges secret understanding between
Wells and Gov. Church. for the approval of
the appropriation to the School of Mines at
Rapid City, and none to the Soldiers home,
on the governors part; and the support of
the governors measures. positively and
negatively, by Wells. This presupposes a
very complimentary and unsupported de-
gree of influence over the governor and
council on Wells part; albeit, any one who
knows the extent to which Gov. Church
dictated legislation last winter, his share
in the alleged coalition will not seem
so improbable. 1t is known to your
correspondent that the governor stipulated
beforehand the terms and amount of the
School of Mines appropriation, but Wells
had very little to say about the agreement.
In fact he seems not to have had as much to
say about legislation for this district as the
other four members. The truth is that
Wells is the legislative father of the School
of Mines and he was reelected to carry
along the enterprise; he went to Bismarck
loaded for that, first last and all the
time" 1t is also true that there is
A STRONG PARTY
of men at Rapid City who did not estimate
its Importance SO highly as he did.
There were other schemes mooted at Bis
marck last winter that they thought of
more importance to Rapid City than any
school-one of which was the removal of
the territorial courts from Deadwood to
Rapid City. There was a log-rollng at
Bismarck ON contradictions, and word
came down to Rapid City that it
could have court If it would send
some one on to ''stiffen up old Wells back
bone and get him out from under the
| thumb of Washabaugh. the other coun-
Gilman from this legislative district; resid-
| ing in DeadWOod. WaShabaugh had been
very helpful to get through the former leg
| islature Wells original bill for the erection
of the school at Rapid City, so that Wells
| owed him gratitude. aside from the fear of
his hostility to another slice of patronage.
A meeting of the Rapid City board OF trade,
called to consider the invertebrate and en-
/ shaved condition of its councilman, came to
the resolve that they should have both court
and school, if pfssble. but the court any,
way; and they raised $500 on the spot, and
sent Il lobby OF four good men and true''
to Bismarck. 1 Z; ya1le JACK - = -
the conft ms II II HIGH SPIRITS
over having made the school appropriation
solid-which was supposed to be solid all
the time. l expect that where Stewart
came to grief was in not making sure of the
governor and Councilman Washabaugh be-
| forehand, rather than because of Wells
having "shamefully and wilfully betrayed
u.s." as he charges. 1t is pertinent to recall
! the circumstance that Mr.. WaShabaugh was
rather severely criticised by some of his
home constituents for having helped Wells
to secure the school for Rapid City
originally. The result shows that,
besides not being afflicted with that
| infantile local jealousy which
so infests these rival towns, Mr.. Washa-
baugh laid the foundation for saving the
courts to Deadwood. But. nevertheless, |
suspect that his friend Wells has impaired
his popularity at home by sticking to him
so faithfully. Wells was received home
from the legislature with as little effusion
as any of the five legislators. And his town
got the biggest appropriation of all! And
now Stewart is on his trail! Republicans
are ungrateful.
BLACK HILLS BUILDING PROSPECTS.
grafton to the hills has yet set in. there are
decided beginnings of building activity. TO
start with, the territory will eXpend over
sos, 900 on its institutions the major part of
which is to be upon permanent improve
mentS The additions to the school of
mines building will cost more than the
original structure. and it is to be hoped will
be more creditable INTELLECTUALLY. The
present building looks more like a gentle
mans country seat than like public insti-
tuition. The new board of directors will
break ground in few days. The proposed
Masonic temple at Rapid City. upon the
plans adopted. will be the most ornamental
building in this part of the territory. 1t is
to be a three-Story, pressed-brick structure,
trimmings of terra Gotta and Black Hills
variegated stone. all produced right here
The affair will cost S25, 900. The Hotel
Harvey to be completed, opera house al
ready under way and private enterprises
decided upon will make the season active at
Rapid City. At Spearfish
IN THE NORTHERN HILLS,
water works are to be constructed and adj
ditionS to the territorial normal school
built turning loose about $40. 200; while
S25, 600 hotel lumber mills, several brick
stores and more than several dwellings will
provoke something resembling boom.
SpearfiSh, next to- Custer, is the finest site
for town in the Hills.
Sturgis, under the prospects of Elkhorn
railroad extension and county seat hopes
is already pitching boards and dimension
stuff with energy. Butte. the northern
most county of the Hills. has let the con-
tracts for new county jail at Minnesota.
Building is unusually active at Lead City.
Hermosa has been doing something in this
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mills are building at Hermosa and Buffalo
Gap. Add to this catalogue the promised
construction of the Elkhorn branch and the
narrow gauge enterprises from this point.
and the disbursements already contracted
for in mining plants. and you have the
promise of good season in the Hills.
wANTED-HoUsEs.
Rapid City, Sturgis and Lead City
especially need residences to rent. In the
last named the situation is peculiar To
find a house for rent is great luck; but you
can readily buy for two or three times the
amount of years rent. A house that rents
for $15 per month will sell for from $500 to
$500. Building is very expensive. for both
material and labor: the houses would cost
much more to build than is asked for them.
This situation is one of the consequences of
a high money market and the greater allure
ments to mining and stock investments.
But in Rapid City. where building is cheap
by reason OF the abundance of all materials
close at hand. rentals will not pay as good
returns OH capital as loaning. though there
is great scarcity of tenementS. Building
for business purposes has been carried ahead
of immediate demands. and there is
J a scale of low rents for stores and Offices
This has had the effect to encourage new
business concerns and the growth of COM
petition, with important results to the bust